In most contests like the ARRL DX CW contest, I copy by ear, and send mostly by rig keyer.

If needed, I use a single paddle key with the Icom rig's internal keyer to answer unique questions and so on.

Below is a quick demo of using the internal Morse code keyer in my Icom IC-7610 transceiver, before using any software like N1MM.

V47T, in the Saint Kitts and Nevis Island in the Caribbean, is calling CQ TEST in the ARRL DX CW contest.

Using the programmable internal Icom IC-7610 virtual buttons in which I programmed my callsign (NW7US) and other info, I answer and make a complete contest QSO.  My answer is just a touch on the transceiver touchscreen, where the button is drawn.

In activity like the Straight Key Century Club (SKCC) yearly special event, K3Y, my receiving and sending is all manual.  I send with a WWII Navy Flameproof Signal Key, and decode with my ears.  See, it is contextual for me.

How about you?  During contests: In what manner do you decode CW Morse code?  How do you send it?



73 de NW7US dit dit

I'm still learning code.

if fldigi can't, i go back to js8. can't get the noise little enough to be able to overcome bad wetware.

I look at that little code coin I got off eBay.  

i don't

I don't ... yet

I did contesting once, not including any SKCC events I may have taken part in.

Pretty sure I used my Bencher paddle, but that was in 2011.

I've been absent from the hobby for a long time and trying to get the rust out of code.

I copy in my head and use my logger to transmit. If I need a fill, I hit F6 and can type an arbitrary message.

Frank,

Nice station.

What do you use for logging?

N1MM most of the time. Occasionally WriteLog.